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As fans of the Fast & Furious franchise eagerly await its finale, deceased actor Paul Walker’s brother Cody Walker said he will not be returning to play Paul’s character Brian O’Conner like he did in the aftermath of the actor’s death in 2013.

Cody suggested the character may be able to make a comeback for 2028’s Fast Forever with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but only if Paul’s daughter Meadow is okay with the idea.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about being called in to play his brother’s part again, Cody said, “I would not be interested in doing that again. I love the way his character exited the franchise. They didn’t kill him off, they didn’t do something cheesy like that. It’s beautiful, [O’Conner] is off raising his kids.”

He continued: “But if they want to do that, if Meadow would like to see that, they don’t need me or Caleb. AI was not a thing back in 2014, so they could do that. There’s years of footage that was never used from these other Fast films. They’re the best in the business, they can figure that out.”

In Furious 7, O’Connor’s last scene shows him driving off on a different road from Vin Diesel’s Dominic ‘Dom’ Toretto and leaving the gang to go and raise a family with his wife Mia (Jordana Brewster). The scene is one of the most iconic of the series and was received well by fans.

Earlier in 2018, Cody and his other brother, Caleb, had said they were willing to reprise Paul’s role in future films.

Paul was killed in 2013 when his car crashed into a lamp post in California and burst into flames. When emergency services arrived, they found the actor and one other person dead at the scene.

Last year, Diesel said he wouldn’t be making a last Fast & Furious film without Paul’s character making a comeback to reunite with the crew.

“The studio said to me, ‘Vin, can we please have the finale of Fast & Furious [in] April 2027?’ I said, ‘Under three conditions,’” he told Vanity Fair. “The first is to bring the franchise back to LA. The second thing was to return to the car culture, to the street racing. The third thing was reuniting Dom and Brian O’Conner. That is what you’re going to get in the finale.”

The franchise began with The Fast and the Furious in 2001, following undercover police officer O’Conner investigating a group of Los Angeles street racers led by Toretto. The series has since expanded to 11 feature films, and has gone on to make more than $7 billion at the global box office.